Hi all,I'm taking a 78 recording (and several others that I'm transferring) and trying to clean it up. I'm capturing the audio with Audacity at 32-bit IEEE float, as a stereo recording from a 78 stylus on my turntable at 45 then changing the speed, finishing it off with inverting the RIAA curve.My question is about cleaning up from this point forward understanding of course that one method simply won't work in every case.

I have Audacity, Sound Forge, DeNoise and ClickRepair. I've tried following this to a certain degree but I have no way of knowing if there's something I'm missing, if it's out of date, if there's a better way, etc. Mastering, I'm ok with. It's just the cleaning part I want to know with the aim of archiving these transfers.

Ok, so with 2bdecided's help I'll be doing the following:- RIAA curve on the original (45rpm) recording- correct the speed to 78- apply the correct curveAnd I'll be doing my click repair and noise reduction right after applying the RIAA inverted curve (so after step 1 in this case) because I think it does a better job repairing at the slower 45.